It is quite amazing how, once again, the ICC has reorganised fixture schedules to cause maximum inconvenience to those who have planned ahead to attend games.

First came the transfer of the Under-19 World Cup from Kenya to New Zealand, upsetting not a few people; then the Ireland versus Kenya Intercontinental Cup fixture was altered from Clontarf, near Dublin, to Eglinton, near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, some 100 miles away.

Third, when recently Uganda went to play the United Arab Emirates, the four-day Intercontinental Shield game was set for Dubai and the one-dayers for Abu Dhabi; it turned out to be the other way round.

Afghanistan versus Ireland in Sri Lanka was sensibly altered from January 23-26 to January 21-24 because of elections; then the T-20 Tri-Series was brought in in Nairobi to replace the ODIs between Kenya and Scotland previously scheduled.

Now the Intercontinental Cup match between Kenya and Netherlands will start on February 20 instead of February 17 and will follow the two ODIs instead of precede them.

If this is because a lesson has been learned from the appalling attendance at the Kenya versus Scotland Intercontinental Cup match - played on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - then all well and good.

The Kenya v Netherlands match will now be on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday instead of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, hopefully resulting in a few more people coming to watch the game than came to see the Scots.

Of course, there was hardly any publicity for the Kenya versus Scotland games; even outside the main entrance to Nairobi Gymkhana - a private members' club - there was no indication whatsoever that an international match was taking place.

Perhaps the semi-ramshackle nature of the Gymkhana stands had something to do with this. But I think it is an attitude problem, which stretches right up into the ICC. The impression is that these games are played for the players and officials, and that little consideration is given to the spectators, few as they are.

At least, although in Abu Dhabi too there were very few spectators for the UAE versus Uganda game, there were signs posted on the city's highways to indicate where the cricket ground - a beautiful object - was.

When I recall the crowds that thronged Nairobi Gymkhana for the LG Cup in 1999, the Champions League final in 2000 and the Sri Lanka victory match in the 2003 World Cup, it is disheartening to see the ranks of empty stands - apart from a few cohorts of schoolchildren - that face the players who aim to put on a show at Gymkhana.

Go back further, and there were thousands, rows deep, for the ICC Trophy final between Kenya and UAE at Ruaraka in 1994.

What has gone wrong that cricket-lovers are no longer encouraged to attend international games?

I hear, however, that Lugogo Stadium in Kampala, Uganda, has a habit of pulling spectators in. Let's hope that is the case and that, when Uganda play Namibia there in September, this will prove an example to others.